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Fiber Broadband Association Opens 2026 Awards Nominations

 

This week, FBA opened nominations for its 2026 FBA Awards program. The annual awards recognize outstanding individuals, organizations, and innovations that are building a faster, more resilient, and better connected future. 

 

2026 FBA Award Categories:

  • Photon Award – Honors an individual whose volunteer service demonstrates exceptional dedication to the Association and the industry. 

  • Star Award – Recognizes a company or community that goes above and beyond in advancing fiber to the home. 

  • Gene Scott Education Award – Recognizes a person, community, or institution that has made a significant impact on fiber industry education. 

  • Fiber Under Forty – Spotlights professionals born in 1986 or later whose contributions are driving meaningful results for their companies and the industry. 

  • Women Changing Fiber for Good – Celebrates women whose leadership and actions are improving the industry in lasting ways. 

  • Advocacy Allstars – Honors individuals advancing fiber broadband policy at state and federal levels. 

  • Community Impact – Recognizes fiber projects that enable communities and change lives across North America. 

  • Product Innovation – Showcases Technology innovation that expands fiber broadband’s ability to meet customer needs today and over the next decade.

  • Constellation – Celebrates coalitions of companies that team up to advance fiber networks across communities, states, or regions. 

     

➡️Submit your nominations by March 13 here.

➡️Read the full release here.

 

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Member Mingle Recap in San Diego!👋   

 

The FBA Membership Team’s, Kim Rickard, hosted the first Member Mingle of 2026 on January 21st in San Diego. Thank you to the members who live in, operate in, or do business in California for coming out to this fantastic 2-hour complimentary opportunity to network with industry leaders and peers. The community is stronger with you!

Miss the event? We invite you to get added to the California channel in the FBA member online community, and you’ll be notified of the next one. Email us at membership@fiberbroadband.org.

 

📍Keep an eye out for an FBA Member Mingle coming to a city near you in 2026!

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Cracking the Code on Broadband Coordination in Maryland  

 

For years, Maryland had a familiar problem: broadband and digital infrastructure assets existed all over the state, but no one could see them all in one place. Fiber routes, towers, government buildings, transportation systems, and underserved communities were planned and managed in silos, often leading to duplicated effort and missed opportunities.

 

On this week’s Fiber for Breakfast Eric Bathras, Chief Technology Officer for Maryland’s Office of Infrastructure, joined Gary to explain how the state set out to fix that problem by building a statewide “Single View” of digital infrastructure, and how that decision is already reshaping how Maryland plans, funds and deploys broadband. 

 

Read the full summary here

Watch the full interview here

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Fiber Broadband Positioned as Strategic Asset for AI and Quantum Growth

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Meta and Corning sign $6 billion fiber deal to connect data centers

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FCC to vote on changing Lifeline rules

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Updated, comprehensive list: NTIA BEAD approvals

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Dumb pipes or AI powerhouses? Telcos face an identity crisis

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Meta-Corning fiber deal signals a new bottleneck in AI infrastructure 

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Data center analysts suggest need for regulation to control hyperscaler costs

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New England customers mostly think broadband is affordable

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